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Identity
Person No.
33406
Old ROH no.
1539
Service No.
81026494BG
Last Name
Van Den Dool 1
First Name
Terence
Initials
T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1965 (±1 yr) 280
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
22 January 1984 89
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident 255
Died in Freak Accident, while swimming with his friends at Hippo Pool, Ruacana, he vanished under the water. Although a search was launched, they failed to recover his body. He was declared dead in 1986
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
3 South African Infantry Battalion 70
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,342
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Air Force
Defence Force
SADF 3,817
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,850
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Body not recovered 79
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
The Wayside Cross, with its 1914-1919 and 1939-1945 Roll of Honour plaques. Source: Pinetown Roll of Honour, Pinetown Museum (Hazel England).
Names on 1980-1988 Bush War
Memorial
Wayside Cross
Location
Pinetown Library grounds, Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal
Address
67 Josiah Gumede (Old Main) Road, Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Coordinates
-29.8148, 30.8605 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
1980-1988 Bush War
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
Training Formation
Notes

On Pinetown, Kwazulu Natal Memorial

Research notes

MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48771 ("Van den Dool") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (81026494BG) and DateDeath (1984-01-22), surname a spelling/OCR/case variant, confirmed via the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF cross-check. Same class of error as the Sekonjela/Sekonyela merge earlier the same day.
13 Sep 2026: Pinetown Roll of Honour confirms: Cpl T. Van Den Dool, 3 South African Infantry Battalion, attended Pinetown Boys High. Their date 21-01-1984 vs this record's 1984-01-22 -- one day apart, not resolved. Named on the Wayside Cross, Pinetown.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added -- database-wide sweep for SADF Border War operational-area deaths within the medal's gazetted window (25 Jun 1976 - 27 Apr 2003), per the warrant's died-before-qualifying-period provision. See PersonAward.Citation for the gazette references.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added earlier today REVERTED -- John obtained the actual Government Gazette (GG 5171/5575); the "died before completing the qualifying period" provision relied on does not exist in the primary text (it was a secondary-source claim). Actual Rule 5 requires (a) combat/enemy-caused incident, (b) a Ministerially-acknowledged operation (clasp), or (c) 55+ continuous/90+ non-continuous days in an operational area -- none of which this record's cause of death clearly demonstrates.

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